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This final chapter returns to a central topic: the use of Greece and its purported legacy to construct ideas about Europe. From 1821, the Greek Revolution gave that theme a growing urgency. Most obviously, the Revolution was an opportunity to reconsider Greece’s historical and ideological connections with the Ottoman Empire and other European states. However, for members of Byron’s circle, as well as many other philhellenes, it was also a chance to apply wider political ideals to an immediate practical context. The circle attempted, not wholly successfully, to assimilate an idea of classical tradition to the Greek political moment and produce a revolutionary version of “liberty” which could potentially reform, or at least change, the European state system.
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Stock, P. (2010). “The Cause of Greece, the Cause of Europe”: The Byron Circle, July 1823–April 1824. In: The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106307_8
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